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I have thrown together this article rather quickly, mostly from material that already existed on the page Rajiv Malhotra. I suspect that the description of the contents of the book will need further refinement (along with perhaps tweaks to avoid stating Malhotra's controversial claims in WP's voice). Obviously reception section needs expansion. Note also that Wikipedia:WikiProject Books/Non-fiction article, in its section on Synopsis, suggests (footnote 1) that "Synopsis should be between 400 and 700 words (about 600 words), but should not exceed 900 words unless there is a specific reason such as being complicated." Thus, even though we may feel a strong drive to give a full description of many of the book's ideas, we should exercise restraint on our total word count. -- Presearch (talk) 22:32, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Postscript: Credit is due to those editors who wrote that original text describing the contents of the book. At top of the Talk page is a template to record that credit. -- Presearch (talk) 21:58, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Quote farm?

This article looks like it's primarily a WP:QUOTEFARM. It also have an idiosyncratic way of handling references, but that's less of a problem, since it has no copyvio implications. These quotes should be paraphrased ASAP, and probably they should be culled in the meantime. 0x0077BE ^{(talk · contrib)} 04:00, 27 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I culled most of the quotes in the "Reception" section in this diff, since they were blatant copyvio with essentially no commentary, but there's significantly more commentary in the "About the book" section, so I'd prefer it if an editor more familiar with the book could clear out those extensive quotes. 0x0077BE ^{(talk · contrib)} 04:04, 27 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Points of divergence

Being Different mentions six points of divergence, not four. Anyone care to add the other two, without simply copy-editing? See beingdifferentbook.com "Synopsis and Patheos Book Club. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 12:07, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]